# Emperor Franz I of Austria in his Coronation Robes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AMERLING, Friedrich von]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 260 x 175 cm ## Commentary Amerling was the favourite court painter and from 1830 one of the most popular artist in Vienna. His reputation was based on the life-size portrait of Emperor Franz in 1832. In this portrait the traditional Baroque attributes of a royal portrait are combined with a depiction of "natural man". This is what makes the portrait unconventional. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 11 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/mussorgsky\_godunov\_coronation.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Coronation Scene</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Countess Nákó]() - [Girl in Yellow Hat]() - [Likeness of a Girl]() - [Maiden with a Straw Hat]() - [Portrait of a Young Girl]() - [Portrait of Count István Széchenyi]() - [Portrait of Princess Marie Franziska von Liechtenstein Aged Two]() - [Rudolf von Arthaber with his Children]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()